Environmental footprints show China and Europe’s evolving resource appropriation for soybean production in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Mato Grosso has become the center of Brazil’s soybean industry, with production located across an agricultural frontier expanding into savanna and rainforest biomes. We present environmental footprints of soybean production in Mato Grosso and resource flows accompanying exports to China and Europe f...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	Michael J Lathuillière, Mark S Johnson, Gillian L Galford, Eduardo G Couto
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Subjects:	soybean land footprint water footprint carbon footprint deforestation nutrients
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074001